Wednesday, July 22, 2009

I'm now a happy user of the very fast Firefox 3.5.1, having figured out that my 3.5 problems were the result of the extension Tab Mix Plus. How did I figure it out? I installed 3.5.1, started the browser in Safe Mode, with all extensions disabled, and found that all was well. I quit and restarted and, on a hunch, tried disabling Tab Mix Plus. My guess was that the problems I had encountered with 3.5 were likely caused by an extension that affected the browser's interface. Sure enough — with Tab Mix Plus disabled, everything was fine.

Asa, thanks for reading and commenting (and for all that you do for Firefox).

TMP adds many options: changing tab width, removing the New Tab button, removing the Close Tab button from tabs, changing mouse actions, changing the context menu, and so on. I guess that some of these things could be changed via userChrome.css, but I think others need TMP (or perhaps another extension).

OK. That makes sense. The big options that I remember from years ago and which are still advertised as TMP's top-line features, like tab drag and drop, tab to new window (and the inverse,) undo close tab and window, and session restore have all since been added to Firefox. But, as I also recall, there have always been about a million other options in TMP.

“Orange Crate Art” is a song by Van Dyke Parks and the title of a 1995 album by Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson. It is, to my mind, one of the great American songs: “Orange crate art was a place to start.” Comments are welcome, appended to posts or by
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